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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Christmas Already...

I've visited this website for the past two years to watch and CONTROL this guy's (Alek Komarnitsky) Christmas lights. It's a pretty cool setup - the first year I clicked all the buttons and watched via Alek's three webcams as lights would turn off and on. The only problem was...it was a big hoax. It seems all Alek did was take pictures of various combinations of lights on and off, in different weather (cloudy, sunny, snowy, etc) and at different times (dusk, night), then wrote a script that would deliver the appropriate image depending on the time of day, what you had clicked off or on, and the weather. Pretty complex hoax, and all in fun.
So the next year (2005) Alek decides to try it for real - setting up actual controls so you can truly mess with his lights (and he has a ton of them). Anyway, I happened to check it out today, and I watched him and one of his kids as they put up lights and decorations outside their house. It's kinda strange, watching someone in Denver in real time from here in Paris - the internet sure is cool, isn't it? Anyway, check this site out in a few days when Alek has the lights and controls going - pretty cool, imho.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow great post. I seen a lot of the pics (as well as some video LOL) but this was nice!